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From Mediacaster Magazine: Free Wi-Fi access is now available in the central Toronto downtown core, following the launch of One Zone, the wireless network from Toronto Hydro Telecom. Available in a six-square kilometre area, bounded by Front St to the south, Bloor St to the north, stretching east/west from around Bathurst St to Parliament St, …
From CNN: Many more white children use the Internet than do Hispanic and black students, a reminder that going online is hardly a way of life for everyone. Two of every three white students — 67 percent — use the Internet, but less than half of blacks and Hispanics do, according to federal data released …
From TechRepublic: Many people have experienced the phenomenon of receiving a telephone call from someone shortly after thinking about them. Now a scientist says he has proof of what he calls telephone telepathy. Rupert Sheldrake, whose research is funded by the respected Trinity College in Cambridge, England, said on Tuesday he has conducted experiments that …
From SearchEngineWatch.com: News and history junkies take heart: Google’s new News Archive Search lets you search back over twenty decades worth of historical content, including scads of articles not previously available via the search engine. “The goal of this service is to allow people to search and explore how history unfolded,” said Anurag Acharya, Google …
Regular reader Pat sent me a great document of Microsoft Word shortcuts and tips. As I looked into it, I found it was originally referenced on the InformationWeek site in an article called Office Letter: A Cheat Sheet for Word: Office Letter reader Lyn Hancock wrote to share her list of shortcuts for Word. This …
In the last year I’ve mentioned Box.net a couple of times (here and here). It is an online storage site. They provide you with 1GB of space for free and you pay if you want more than that. They just recently started a new service called Box.net/lite. It allows you to share files up to …
From BusinessWeek: The guy from Bentonville, Ark., surely isn’t on any of Hollywood’s leading man lists. A 23-year Wal-Mart Stores veteran, David Porter is the person at the retail giant who orders DVDs and slashes prices to move them. But this summer, Porter has been one of Hollywood’s hottest acts, taking meetings with top studio …
Over the past few weeks, I have discussed different methods to create black and white photographs from your colour images. I covered the three main conversion techniques, convert to grayscale, desaturate you image, and using the channel mixer. Of course, there are still even more ways to convert you image to a black and white …
From eWeek: The high-powered StopBadware.org coalition has slapped a “badware” label on the free version of the AOL 9.0 software program. The group, which is funded by Google, Lenovo Group and Sun Microsystems, accused AOL of installing additional software without telling the user; adding components to the browser and taskbar without disclosure; automatically updating software …
From Reuters: Google Inc will supply eBay Inc with Web search advertising outside the United States, and the two will join forces on “click-to-call” ads that link online shoppers to customer service operators, the companies said on Monday. EBay said that for international online text advertising it had agreed to rely exclusively on Google instead …